indurate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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to become hard; harden.
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to become established or confirmed.
adjective
verb
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to make or become hard or callous
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to make or become hardy
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of indurate
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English indurat, from Latin indūrātus, past participle of indūrāre “to harden”; see in- 2, dure 1, -ate 1
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When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes human beings do things that are too much for even the most indurate newsgatherers of the daily press to contemplate without shuddering.
From Time Magazine Archive
When indurate Premier Poincare came into office, international conferences went out of fashion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Haste hapless sighs! and let your burning breath Dissolve the ice of her indurate heart!
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
But all I see is the snow in the vernal sunshine dissolving, And the waters no more delved from the indurate lake.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Both indurated by early Nintendo gaming and an inherited tradition of rote replication duplicated many orthodox video gaming tropes.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2018
This has become a matter of indurated faith, resistant to any insert of mere fact.
From Time Magazine Archive
They all seemed231 hearty and healthy, and their indurated hands were the best diploma of their industry.
Clunch, klunsh, n. the miner's name for tough indurated clay, sometimes found in the coal-measures.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
One of the cross-breeds, whose pads were not well indurated, suffered from lacerated feet, and one of his stoppers was torn almost off, necessitating removal.
From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various
Why should any one go through an indurating process?
From Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner
Released from the indurating business of daily chores and the calculations of house-keeping, and placidly secure in a miser's infatuation, she lived an almost effortless emotional existence.
From Command by William McFee
In moulding pulp into articles of manufacture, satisfactory machines have been invented, not only for the mere forming them into shape, but for water-proofing and indurating the same.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
Their feet, too, were bare, but small and well-formed, betraying little indurating familiarity with the rough paths around them.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen
And this cruel idea of self-sacrifice was, no doubt, completing the indurating process.
From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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